Dysphagia ( trouble swallowing) is a very common issue affecting patients both old and young. Trouble in swallowing tablets or capsules can occur for several different reasons. Sometimes it’s because the patient is simply too young to want to take something solid. Other patients may be battling with an illness that stops them from swallowing anything comfortably or it may just be the thought of swallowing a capsule which is unpalatable.
Should you or someone you know suffers from swallowing difficulties there’s a solution to the problem. While at first it may appear that the solution is crushing tablets to make them easier to take it is definitely not so. There are a number of explanations why tablets shouldn’t be crushed so that they are easier to take.
A primary reason is that some tablets use a sugar coating which helps to make them taste better. Crushing them removes this coating and will make them taste rather unpleasant. Other tablets have an enteric coating which is made to keep the medication together while it is within the stomach. This can be either to guard the medication from the stomach or the other way round. Lastly if a tablet is designed to have a modified release system crushing it will cause all the medicine to be released at once as opposed to over a longer period of time.
There is however an effective solution to the difficulties of dysphagia and the issues it may cause. Using liquid formulation, liquid medicine and liquid drugs has been proven to reduce the problems of dysphagia and also the medicine management issues it may cause. Liquid formulations are easy to swallow and come in several tasty flavours. They are available as an alternative for a number of pills and tablets used to treat many health problems.
Rosemont Pharma make a variety of both licensed and unlicensed medicines and are one of the leading specials manufacturers in the united kingdom.
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